Override short dimensions

[d.sellam]

Hello,

I saw this topic and I was wondering if we could use a script to replace only short dimensions ( like walls ) with an inivisible caracter.

I made this video to explain the concept but I’m not sure how to get the unicode caracter in Dynamo (like this blog post on RevitIq

Clean Dimensions

[jacob.small]

• Open Character Map on your CPU.
• Search for “Zero Width Space” in the Arial Unicode listing.
• Copy the character to the clipboard.
• Paste it into a string node.
• Override the dimension accordingly.

[d.sellam]

Thank you Jacob for you’re answer,

So I found the invisible caracter, now I want to get only part of the dimension and replace them… I trried with the Dimensions.Segments Node by Rythm but the type of object for setValueOverride is not the right one …

It expects a Dimension and not a System.Object

Do you have an idea on how to get only sub-dimensions from the original one ?

Thanks

[jacob.small]

@d.sellam

Do you have an idea on how to get only sub-dimensions from the original one

Not offhand, but I believe that has been discussed on the forum before.

[Alban_de_Chasteigner]

Hi Daniel,

You can do it like that :

Override short dimensions.dyn (9.3 KB)

[d.sellam]

Thank you Alban this works perfectly.
( Are the values converted in meters + rounded directly by your node ? Or do you get the actual value on screen depending of the dimension setting ?)

[Alban_de_Chasteigner]

The custom node uses the settings of the project units (it converts from internal units : feets to the display units) and not the alternate units of the dimension type.

[d.sellam]

If it can helps, I made this graph to clean multiple dimension lines in one operation

[flyboy70]

Thank you - i was looking for a solution like this for a while now, and nobody was able to provide a solution. great work !